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2. A "complete" collection is more marketable by gamers looking to re-sell. If you think you might sell it down the line, may as well have the whole package on offer.
3. Having it all is psychologically satisfying. *looks over at complete collections of Dreamblade, Monsterpocalypse, D&D Attack Wing, and World of Warcraft Miniatures*
Expansions intended to add players and especially content are fine. I don't think I own any games that needed an expansion to make them playable in the first place.
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Legomancer wrote: I'm pretty down on expansions. There are plenty for games I like that I've just not bothered with. The only one I've gotten recently is the one for It's a Wonderful World, which adds a couple more strategies without a lot of rules overhead. Apart from things like alternate maps or factions, I'm not really interested.
Yes! I pretty much only want expansions that don’t add more rules. Just give me stuff I can effortless shuffle in, that makes it less likely I’ll see stuff I’ve seen before.
I’ll admit I was briefly worried that the OP was going to express his opinion that there were better board game websites out there, but he’s already so invested in TWBG….
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Expansions are generally useless, made for games that don’t need them. I rarely buy except for new tracks for racing games or ew airplane models.
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Sagrilarus wrote: Expansions are generally useless, made for games that don’t need them.
Them's fightin' words. I think a lot of this hinges what one considers an 'expansion.'
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QE: 5th player expansion
Neuroshima Hex: new armies
Smartphone: KS, came with expansions I haven't used
51st State: New factions and card sets that change rules
Galaxy Trucker: Bought Big expansion years ago, took it back out.
Core Worlds: Galactic Orders is a very solid expansion. The other one not so much.
Innovation: Bought used and came with one expansion, but I never use it.
Shards of Infinity: bought one expansion
Theseus: bought 2 armies
Fallout: Bought New California and Atomic Bonds, which make the game co-op
Power Grid: More maps, different power plants. Didn't buy robots or stock market
El Grande: Had the Big Box with all the dumb expansions, traded for normal box version without them
Nations: Has a good expansion
Xia: Expansion stuff is okay, hit or miss
Small World: more armies
Lords of Waterdeep: Skullport is very cool, the other is mostly just more of the same
Steam: maps. I had Steam Barons (stock game) but took it out
Terraforming Mars: I have them all but only interested in Prelude and the maps
It's a Wonderful World: Haven't played it yet but expansion adds a few things that mainly give some more strategy
Zeppelin Attack: expansion mostly just adds cards
San Juan: now comes with expansion
Stuff I have that I know has expansions I passed on:
Bunny Kingdom
Pandemic: The Cure
Tramways
Civ New Dawn
Mottainai (I think)
Ginkgopolis
High Frontier 4 All: Just have the modules it comes with
And here's what I WISH had expansions:
Android (more characters pls)
Ethnos
I'm sure there's more of all 3 groups but that's what I can see at the moment
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Shellhead wrote: It might be a collector's mentality, which I have sometimes fallen prey to in the past. FFG used to patch their games with expansions, so if you were a big FFG player in the past, you might have internalized that concept.
Agreed. When it came to Runebound 2e, I was afflicted with Gottahavitis. Hell, I sold some stock and bought the Midnight expansion off of Noble Knight over a year ago, and I've STILL yet to play it.
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Shellhead wrote: It might be a collector's mentality, which I have sometimes fallen prey to in the past. FFG used to patch their games with expansions, so if you were a big FFG player in the past, you might have internalized that concept.
Agreed. When it came to Runebound 2e, I was afflicted with Gottahavitis. Hell, I sold some stock and bought the Midnight expansion off of Noble Knight over a year ago, and I've STILL yet to play it.
Maybe you should watch Midnight Chronicles to get in the mood:
www.imdb.com/title/tt1079372/
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I did the same thing with Dominion last year, only sitting out the latest expansion when I realized I hadn’t yet played the two previous more than twice. Games like Lvl 99’s Exceed release another 12 or so characters in regular seasons. Sometimes I scoop a bit more of these than I need because the bundle deal is pretty good.
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